Easter in 2020 was weird. The Easter bunny left things way out in the street since he wasn’t comfortable getting any closer. This year, it was less strange while still being nonstandard, but Jason and I made holiday glucose spikes possible through a few enigmatic modifications. Let me sugar coat and nougat fill the tale for you.
Like most of you, Jason and I thought everything would be so normal by this Easter that kids would be crawling over each other for a Tootsie Roll. We were wrong. Although some sections of my family were fully vaccinated before Easter, for obvious reasons the kiddos were not amongst those. Therefore, we felt a hunt where all social distancing would be discarded in the name of honeyed loot was not the best idea. The two of us came up with another option no less sugar laden.
We stuffed colorful baskets with plenty of candy from several high-end and thematic sources and provided a variety of gift cards from which each kid could pick. For the record, I don’t think the children would have noticed if their candy came from the seamy end of a Styrofoam plant, as long as it was sugar infused.
What to do about the golden eggs? Usually, the golden eggs are the most coveted portion of the hunt as there are only a few of them, and they contain cash. Last year, we took pictures of the eggs in hiding, and the kids had to find them in photo form to receive them in non-picture format. This year, we did riddle solving via a custom-made online survey to decide who got golden. The winners still had to select an egg from those available with limited knowledge of contents. Each egg contained $5-$40, but we increased that spread from 25 cents to 50 dollars when we reported it to the kids, which had the desired impact of making them more nervous about picking than necessary.
The Easter Bunny made our nieces and nephews both excited and uneasy this year, as he should, and he made Jason and I puzzled over how to provide gooey, sticky, sweetened treasures without providing COVID contact. I think we riddled it out.